Oliver Callan

Callan Kicks the Year dips through all the maddest moments in Ireland and abroad in 2025.

The annual comedy review starring Oliver Callan looks back on the year Ireland flipped out over RTÉ scandals and flopped out of a Rugby World Cup.

From Brat Summer to Kamala’s collapse and Sinn Féin scandals to Simon Harris’ viral disaster, everything worth laughing about features in this essential look back on 2024.

Joining Oliver Callan in kicking the years. 2020 was the year of two lockdowns, two elections and two Taoisigh. Callan's Kicks looks back on the forgettable year's epic highs and lows.

Callan Kicks the Years is a six-part TV series unlike any comedy ever made in Ireland, romping through the 100 years since the 1921 Treaty using sketches and satirical documentary. The series will kick Dev’s grim legacy, the 60s showbands versus feminism era, the twin 80s crazes of Haughey and moving statues, Jackie’s Army, the Bertie Boom through to the Hangover of recession, in a way only comedy can. The most controversial periods of Irish history stripped down for a kicking? There may be calls to Liveline. Talk to Joe.